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  • Kalshi Forecasts Coming to Fox News [sic] as Prediction Market Strikes Deal With Cable Leader

    Source: The Hollywood Reporter

    “The biggest prediction market in the U.S. is teaming up with the biggest TV news [sic] channel in the U.S. Kalshi, the betting platform that lets users put their money on the line to predict the outcome of world events (from elections and sporting events to unemployment rates, Oscar winners and updates in the Iran war), has inked a wide-ranging deal with Fox Corp. that will see its forecasts integrated into Fox News [sic], Fox Business Network, Fox One and Fox Weather. Kalsi has been aggressive about inking deals with media partners: It has similar arrangements with both CNN and CNBC, with the goal to get Kalshi-branded forecasts and predictions onscreen.” (04/07/26)

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fox-news-deal-kalshi-prediction-market-1236557283/

  • UK: Regime denies entry to Ye

    Source: CBS News

    “The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was barred Tuesday from entering the U.K., where he was scheduled to headline the Wireless Festival in July, after a backlash over Ye’s history of antisemitic remarks. Festival organizers canceled the three-day outdoor event as a result of the travel ban and said those who had bought tickets would get refunds. Ye had been granted an electronic travel authorization which has now been withdrawn on the grounds that his presence in the U.K. would not be ‘conducive to the public good,’ CBS News partner network BBC News said, citing the Home Office.” (04/07/26)

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kanye-west-blocked-uk-wireless-festival/

  • Appeals court allows Iowa regime’s LGBTQ books ban to take effect

    Source: United Press International

    “A 2023 Iowa law banning LGBTQ books and topics from being discussed in public school classrooms is taking effect after an appeals court lifted an injunction against it on Tuesday. The Court of Appeals for the Eighth U.S. Circuit ruled against the injunction after a lower court judge blocked the law last year. The law also requires school administrators to inform parents if a student requests accommodations to affirm their gender identity, such as preferred pronouns.” (04/07/26)

    https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/04/07/iowa-lgbtq-book-ban-parental-notification-law-takes-effect/2491775576362/

  • Macron: Iran has allowed two French former detainees to leave the country

    Source: SFGate

    “Iran has allowed two French former detainees, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, to leave the country, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. They had been holed up in French diplomatic premises there since their release from prison in November. ‘Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris are free and on route toward French territory, after three and a half years of detention in Iran,’ Macron posted on X. The green light for them to leave Iran, long sought by France, signaled how Iran is differentiating between nations, treating some favorably and others as foes, in the context of the Iran war. Macron has distanced France from the conflict, saying his country wasn’t consulted in advance about the U.S-Israel strikes and didn’t want the war. He thanked Oman for playing a mediation role in the release of Kohler and Paris.” (04/07/26)

    https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/iran-has-allowed-two-french-former-detainees-to-22193239.php

  • Panama: Huge explosion at Bridge of the Americas leaves one dead and more injured

    Source: Independent [UK]

    “A massive explosion under the Bridge of the Americas has killed one person and injured two, temporarily closing the vital crossing over the Panama Canal. Smoke and flames engulfed part of the bridge, footage on social media showed, after a fuel tanker truck exploded in the area of La Boca, under the 5,400ft-long bridge. Cars and buses sped up in order to move past the explosion. … The Bridge of Americas spans the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal, a vital waterway for commodities connecting the Panama Sea with the Pacific Ocean.” (04/07/26)

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/panama-canal-bridge-of-americas-explosion-b2952852.html


  • Libertarian Office Seeking As Political Pickup Artistry

    Source: Desultory Scribblings
    by Tyler Harris

    “There’s a big difference between a man who hits on 1,000 women and finds only two who are interested, and another man who asks two women out and they both respond positively. Both men have gotten two dates over that same time period, but they’ve adopted very different approaches and built very different reputations. The latter is likely respectful, charismatic, and creates an environment where the women he interacts with feel good. The former’s a loser. In the same way, when the Libertarian Party fields thousands of candidates to win dozens of offices, they sacrifice their success rate on the altar of raw numbers. Like pickup artists, they, too, have adopted in advance the narratives necessary to reinforce this approach even in the face of repeated failures.” (04/07/26)

    https://tylerjohnharris.substack.com/p/libertarian-office-seeking-as-political

  • The Age of the Gilded Apple

    Source: Garrison Center
    by Joel Schlosberg

    “Bill Gates owes much of his fortune to emulating Apple. The video game Halo was first showcased at MacWorld by Jobs before it became an exclusive killer app for Microsoft’s Xbox. Gates’s Windows operating system tapped the talent of Macintosh’s iconic icon designer Susan Kare. And yet the broader impact of Apple’s innovations is hardly confined to such sheerly financial windfalls. This is not just because Apple efforts like the HyperCard which made creating and viewing multimedia straightforward, the Pippin which brought built-in Internet access to a video game console, and the Newton which pioneered the personal digital assistant were influential on later developments without managing to become profitable products for them or anyone else. Indeed, much of the creativity that spread from Apple’s roots in Cupertino, California to cyberspace is closer in spirit to Wozniak than Jobs.” (04/07/26)

    https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20475

  • Time for the 25th Amendment?

    Source: The Realist Review
    by Peter Kuznick

    “Trump is capable of declaring victory and walking away but he is equally capable of unleashing the worst violence we have seen in decades. How does one read the mind of a madman? A desperate madman for that matter. … Iran didn’t put Trump in this position, he did it himself with the help of Netanyahu and his other enablers who I mentioned above. So all bets are off. Trump is capable of anything. The world is holding its collective breath and hoping that saner individuals intervene to put Trump out to pasture or that the military refuses to obey illegal and immoral orders.” (04/07/26)

    https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/time-for-the-25th-amendment

  • Why Should Trump Worry About War Crimes?

    Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
    by Jacob G Hornberger

    “Commentators are pointing out that if Trump follows through with his vow, he and the Pentagon will be committing a war crime because they will be attacking the civilian population rather than military targets. But why should Trump worry about that? He knows full well that he can commit any act he wants, including criminal acts, and will not be held to account for it. The same, of course, holds true for the Pentagon, the CIA, and the rest of the national-security establishment. There are two entities about which Trump would ordinarily have to be concerned. One is Congress …. Trump has nothing to fear because he controls both houses of Congress though his loyal and deferential Republican toadies. … The other entity is the federal judicial system, which has the power of indicting people for crimes. But Trump controls the Justice Department …” (04/07/26)

    https://www.fff.org/2026/04/07/why-should-trump-worry-about-war-crimes/

  • The Iran War Is Now as Dangerous as It Is Senseless with Trump’s Intensified Threats

    Source: Glenn Greenwald
    by Glenn Greenwald

    “The Iran War becomes more senseless, and profoundly more dangerous, with each passing day. This was a war that, as we documented shortly before it began, was never explained to the American people in any meaningful way. That is likely why a large majority have opposed this war from the start, with opposition growing each week. Now, in the war’s sixth full week, we stand on the precipice of dangers unseen for at least two decades. All of this was not only predictable but explicitly and repeatedly predicted. And this is presumably why Trump’s decade-old vows not to involve the U.S. in any new Middle East wars resonated with so many Americans.” (04/07/26)

    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-iran-war-is-now-as-dangerous

  • Let’s Pretend a lot of anti-American protests are made in China

    Source: Fox News
    by Gordon G Chang

    “‘No Kings’ and other protests are sweeping America this year. On May 1, communists and other leftists are planning to try and shut the country down with ‘general strikes.’ ‘Recent reporting indicates that these protests are neither spontaneous nor decentralized,’ wrote Sen. Josh Hawley to then-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in February, seeking an investigation into ‘radical left-wing organizations and individuals funding anti-ICE protests—including those with possible ties to the Chinese Communist Party.’ At the center of Chinese funding is Neville Roy Singham, an American tech billionaire living in Shanghai, who is implementing Xi Jinping’s euphemistically stated goal of ‘telling China’s story well.’ Singham, an avowed communist, operates an ‘international Revolutionary Front’ of about 2,000 groups.” (04/07/26)

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gordon-chang-lot-anti-american-protests-made-china

  • Trump’s Monstrous Threats Against the Iranian People

    Source: Eunomia
    by Daniel Larison

    “The president has frequently demonstrated that he is a menace to the world and unfit to remain in office, and he has done so again. He ought to be impeached and removed. The fact that we know this won’t happen even after these monstrous, genocidal threats is an indictment of the Republican Party and of our entire political system. If they won’t remove the president, Congress must urgently cut off funding for this war.” (04/07/26)

    https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/trumps-monstrous-threats-against

  • If Orbán Loses Hungary’s Election, It Will Dispel the Air of Invincibility Around Strongmen

    Source: The UnPopulist
    by Laszlo Gendler

    “Orbán’s tenure has evolved into an experiment in illiberalism within the European Union — an ‘illiberal state,’ in his own words — that he has sought to export as an election-proof model for nationalist allies like Donald Trump. But the experiment may be about to blow up, and the consequences could extend far beyond the borders of this small central European country.” (04/07/26)

    https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/if-orban-loses-hungarys-election

  • Bringing Harvard to Heel: The Trump vs. Harvard Brawl is a Necessary Battle for the Salvation of Both Harvard’s and America’s Soul

    Source: Isonomia Quarterly
    by Barry Scott Zellen

    While President Trump says he is still confident in a deal with Harvard – at least more so than he is in securing a ceasefire deal in Ukraine with Russian president Vladimir Putin – his faithful may rightfully ask: why cut a deal with an institution so incestuous, so inbred, so self-serving, and so infested with moral rot, as Harvard?” (04/07/26)

    https://isonomiamag.substack.com/p/bringing-harvard-to-heel-the-trump

  • Trump’s Game for War: How the News Media Is Covering His War

    Source: TomDispatch
    by Nan Levinson

    “A couple of wars ago, when I gave readings from my book War Is Not a Game, I sometimes tried to liven things up by asking the audience to guess which of the names I mentioned were for video games and which were for actual U.S. military campaigns. It didn’t work when there were veterans in the audience — they were too familiar with both — but it did vividly point up the kinship of war and entertainment in our world. Now, welcome to Operation Epic Fury, the perfect name for an adolescent-id-on-steroids-style war. That name was, of course, chosen by Donald (‘How do you like the performance?’) Trump for his campaign against Iran, while his White House social-media team created actual mash-ups of games and reality to match.” (04/07/26)

    https://tomdispatch.com/trumps-game-for-war/

  • The World Simply Does Not Trust America

    Source: Persuasion
    by Francis Fukuyama

    “Donald Trump has claimed that the United States has never been as respected as it has been under his presidency. Of the very many untrue things he has said in his career, this is among the most absurd. There has never been a time when the United States was more distrusted, by both traditional friends and by rivals, as at the present. A successful dealmaker needs to generate a minimal amount of trust that he will uphold his end of the bargain. But reciprocity is a virtue that Trump has never understood or practiced.” (04/07/26)

    https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-world-simply-does-not-trust-america

  • Constitutional Government and the Tenth Amendment

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by Wanjiru Njoya

    “The principle of constitutional government is rendered meaningless if the Constitution is treated as a document whose meaning is endlessly malleable or, even worse, impossible to ascertain. At different times, different parties have deemed it expedient to construe the constitution in whichever way will rubber stamp their political policies. This lack of consensus on the interpretation of constitutional principles is strikingly clear in relation to the Tenth Amendment, which provides that, ‘The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.'” (04/07/26)

    https://mises.org/mises-wire/constitutional-government-and-tenth-amendment

  • How To Stop the War Against Iran

    Source: Antiwar.com
    by Dennis Kucinich

    “If you want to see this war brought to an end, remember this: An appropriations vote is a vote for war. If your congressional representative votes for the ‘National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA),’ they vote for war. This is not about disarming. It is about Congress deciding, on our behalf, limitations on aggression. If Congress votes for a supplemental appropriation to replenish missile stocks, and other armaments, they vote for war.” (04/07/26)

    https://isonomiamag.substack.com/p/bringing-harvard-to-heel-the-trump

  • What San Francisco is doing about homelessness that LA is not

    Source: New York Post
    by Drew Pinsky & Mary LG Theroux

    “San Francisco is making real progress in the fight against homelessness; Los Angeles is not. And the difference is how each city treats addiction among the homeless population. Addicts are a crucial subset of that population. It is a brain disease, and brain diseases, as they progress, result in the loss of the ability to manage the necessities of daily life. We are not referring to those who may experience transient homelessness, who can make use of various resources that are available for housing. We are concerned with those for whom their brain conditions have progressed to the point that they lie down on the sidewalk, and stay there.” (04/06/26)

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/06/opinion/how-la-is-failing-the-homeless/

  • Redefining Inflation to Obscure Its Origins

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Matthew Blakey

    “By redefining inflation as consumer prices, we distort how we interpret policy, inequality, and markets.” (04/07/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/redefining-inflation-to-obscure-its-origins/

  • Do the Democrats Know What Time It Is?

    Source: Gideon’s Substack
    by Noah Millman

    “Betting markets now suggest the Democrats are strongly favored to take the House, and it’s a coin flip whether they’ll take the Senate. In consequence of these developments, debates between moderates and left-wingers about how the party needs to run have been largely shelved in favor of a comforting consensus that ‘we’re not Trump’ will be enough in 2026, and possibly in 2028 as well. … Democrats might well win in 2026 and even in 2028 without having had any serious discussion about what they want to do, or having determined whether what they want to do has anything to do with what the electorate wants or the country needs. And if that is how they win, then what happens after they do?” (04/07/26)

    https://gideons.substack.com/p/do-the-democrats-know-what-time-it

  • Trump isn’t ready to accept his strategic failures in Iran

    Source: Los Angeles Times
    by Jon Duffy

    “The problem in Iran is not that the military has failed to destroy things. It is that destruction is not the same as control. Wars must be judged by the political conditions they produce, not simply by the targets they hit. The Iranian regime still holds its core position. It is still imposing costs and shaping the terms under which other nations, including the U.S., must operate. Tactical violence has not produced durable strategic effect. The administration’s justifications have shifted repeatedly, and its claims of victory have grown more theatrical as the war’s practical results have grown less convincing. … The president launched this war in the name of defending America from imminent threats. He is now applauding limited relief from a coercive order the war itself helped create. What began as a show of force is now a search for smaller and smaller signs of progress.” (04/07/26)

    https://archive.is/p8ZDN

  • Times of forgiveness and redemption

    Source: Christian Science Monitor
    by staff

    “Within a span of three weeks, the world’s main monotheistic religions have marked significant annual observances – Ramadan for Muslims, Easter for Christians, and Passover for Jews. Specific worship practices during these periods of prayer and reflection differ. But they all touch on common themes of forgiveness as well as redemption or liberation – both from severe external dangers and harsh inner sentiments. ‘Forgiveness … forms an important part of what it means to be a Christian (and to be a follower of many other major religions, too),’ Financial Times columnist Jemima Kelly wrote recently. In addition to benefiting individuals, she noted, ‘It can allow nations to heal after decades of conflict [and] bridge the kind of deep divides … we now see in our societies.’ Celebrating Eid, at the end of Ramadan, ‘is all about forgiving people,’ according to Sadaf Farooqi, a writer and Islamic educator based in Karachi, Pakistan.” (04/06/26)

    https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0406/Times-of-forgiveness-and-redemption

  • The March Jobs Report and Time

    Source: CounterPunch
    by Dean Baker

    “Let me be straight: the March jobs report was much better than I had expected. I always give my wife my predictions just before the report comes out, because that’s when I have all the data I’m going to have. My pre-release numbers were 40k jobs and 4.5% unemployment. The actual numbers were 178k jobs and 4.3% unemployment. That’s a big miss. Okay, so what did I get wrong?” (04/07/26)

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/07/the-march-jobs-report-and-time/

  • The Philosophy of Bah

    Source: Bet On It
    by Bryan Caplan

    “Suppose you’re a juror on a murder trial. A witness testifies that he saw the accused hack the victim to pieces with an ax. When the defense lawyer cross-examines the witness, his only challenges are: ‘Prove it wasn’t a dream’ and ‘Maybe you’re a brain in a vat.’ The correct reaction for the jurors is not to peruse philosophy journals for the latest replies to these classic canards. It is to summarily declare, ‘Bah.’ If that’s your lawyer’s best defense against the charge of murder, the jurors should convict you. If ‘Bah’ seems dogmatic, my response is: ‘I’m not dogmatic; you’re gullible.’” (04/07/26)

    https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-philosophy-of-bah

  • MAGA Is Winning Its War Against US Science

    Source: Paul Krugman
    by Paul Krugman

    “When a political movement believes that ignorance is strength.” (04/07/26)

    https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-is-winning-its-war-against-us

  • Why SCOTUS Ruled 8–1 Against Colorado’s “Conversion Therapy” Ban

    Source: Reason
    by Damon Root

    “Sometimes, a highly controversial political or social issue will lead to a highly fractious Supreme Court decision. Chiles v. Salazar is a reminder that even the most contentious issues do not always raise equally difficult legal questions for the Supreme Court to answer.” (04/07/26)

    https://reason.com/2026/04/07/why-scotus-ruled-8-1-against-colorados-conversion-therapy-ban/